Whenever I try to compile powwow 1.2.5 I get an error in the middle and it stops compiling. I have changed the CFLAGS enrty in MAKEFILE regarding to the helpfile but nothing changed about the error. I need some urgent help on this. And here goes the log:

Making Powwow for Linux
make CC='gcc' CDEFS='-Wall -Wshadow -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DUSE_REGEXP' LDFLAGS='-lncurses'

WARNING: if you are coming from a 1.0.x version,
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gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o main.o main.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o utils.o utils.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o tcp.o tcp.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o tty.o tty.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o beam.o beam.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o cmd.o cmd.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o cmd2.o cmd2.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o list.o list.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o map.o map.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o log.o log.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o edit.o edit.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o eval.o eval.c
gcc -O2 -DUSE_REGEXP -c -o ptr.o ptr.c
gcc -o powwow main.o utils.o tcp.o tty.o beam.o cmd.o cmd2.o list.o map.o log.o edit.o eval.o ptr.o -lncurses
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [powwow] Error 1

I think that may require ncurses to be installed first.

Fine. And how should I do that? Is it a package included in distros or what?

I haven't tried SuSE yet, so I don't know. Have you tried installing it with yast? If SuSE can use rpms, you could search rpmfind.

If you need to use source code, search these:
Freshmeat
Sourceforge

Yes, I just looked at the SuSE included rpm's with yast. ncurses had been already installed, but its devel package wasn't. I installed that too and everything went fine. Thanks for your help guys.